PhD defence: The Musician as an Ad Hoc Entrepreneur

Rasmus Rex Pedersen, PhD scholar at Rhythmic Music Conservatory and Roskilde University, recently finished his thesis Ad Hoc Entrepreneurs: Middle-Layer Musicians and the Contemporary Media Landscape and invites the public to his PhD defence at Roskilde University on Wednesday November 18th.

The thesis is a study of key structural changes in the conditions of popular music artists and how organizational and communicational practices of middle-layer musicians are related to media-driven changes in the music business.

Download the thesis here (in pdf-format) and read more about the implications of popular social media for both the mediation of the artist and for the business model that regulates the distribution of agency in the music business.

Everybody is welcome to attend. Following the defence, the Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies (CBIT) will host a reception at Roskilde University.

Rasmus Rex Pedersen: Ad Hoc Entrepreneurs: Middle-Layer Musicians and the Contemporary Media Landscape

Time and place

Wednesday 18. november, 13.00 – 16.00 pm in room 42.2-37 at Roskilde University.

Assessment Committee

Anja Mølle Lindelof, Associate Professor (chairman), Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, DK.

Arnt Maasø, Professor, Media and Communication, University of Oslo, NO.

Matt Stahl, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, CA.

Head of defence

Keld Bødker, Head of Doctoral School, Communication, Business and Information Technologies, RUC, DK.

Supervisor

Fabian Holt, Associate Professor, Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, DK.